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The Nikon Imaging Center is celebrating its 5th anniversary on October 29.
There will be an imaging symposium and a party after the scientific program which begins at 15:00 and will last into the night.
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Heidelberg neuroscientists verify for the first time the function of
inhibiting communication / Published in “Neuron”
Whether different odors can be quickly distinguished depends on certain synapses in the brain that inhibit nerve stimulation. The researchers in Professor Dr.Thomas Kuner’s team at the Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology at Heidelberg University Medical School and Dr. Andreas Schäfer at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research have shown that mice in which a certain receptor in the olfactory center is missing can distinguish similar smells more quickly than mice without genetic manipulation. This behavior was directly attributed to inhibitor loops between adjacent nerve cells.
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Research casts light on the tight evolutionary links between humans and ancient animalsThe freshwater polyp Hydra is a key model organism for modern research in evolutionary and developmental biology.
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